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The Reign of God is Such as These A Socio-Literary Analysis of Daughters in the Gospel of Mark

This is a new analysis of the ''daughters'' in the Gospel of Mark. Betsworth analyzes the ''daughters'' in the Gospel of Mark : the woman from the crowd - whom Jesus calls daughter, Jairus'' daughter (5:21-43), Herodias'' daughter (6:14-29), and the daughter of the Syro-Phoenician woman (7:24-30). To demonstrate how the Gospel''s first century audience may have heard these stories, Betsworth begins by examining ''daughters'' in their ancient Mediterranean context. Betsworth then considers representations of daughters in select texts from the Septuagint and Greco-Roman literature - from the s.

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